City of Fallen Angels

The Mortal Instruments, Book 4

De: Cassandra Clare

Narrado por: Ed Westwick, Molly C. Quinn

Trust is dangerous, and to love is to destroy. Plunge into the fourth installment in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly)—now with a gorgeous new cover, a map, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! City of Fallen Angels is a Shadowhunters novel.

The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price.

Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.

The stakes are higher than ever in the #1 New York Times bestselling fourth installment of the Mortal Instruments series.

The narrators!

I don't know what they were thinking using an awful British guy to reason Simon's story. Hello! Simon is not British! You can't understand half of what the guy says. The female narrator is just as bad. Doesn't she know how to do any voices besides a little girls? Jeez she doesn't even change tones from Clarey to Jace. I've listed to tons of audiobooks but these narrators have to be two of the worse.

Not as good as the first 3, plus narration issues

SPOILER ALERT:
This novel is about 2 1/2 stars out of 5 in my book. The first 2/3 was soooo slow. Also, she could have given us more time with Jace and Clary together. I didn't get enough of that, so I had a hard time empathizing. Supposedly this novel takes place 6 weeks after CoG, but we never see them happy together at all in this book except for one scene in the training room. So, I couldn't feel bad about what was happening to them. Cassie totally let me down in that respect. The first set of novels was filled with a lot of different plot points, plus Jace and Clary's plight to be together. But, we get to see them together for about 5 minutes at the end of CoG and when CoFA opens, Jace is already dealing with possession about 5 minutes in. So, I just never felt they were a couple in my head. At least in the last series, you could feel how much they wanted to be together. But, barely seeing them together and Jace's stand-offishness in this book, I didn't feel that same pull.

I finished the book and was like "Oh well. There will be two more books of them trying to get back together and then they'll eventually be together. And, if they're not, well - she hasn't really given us anything of the good part of their relationship to miss.

Narration: I hate to say it, but this is the most awfully narrated book I've come across on Audible yet. When Ed was speaking, you couldn't differentiate b/w any of the male characters, except for Jace, who for some reason sounded like an unintelligent Brooklyner. Even when Ed had to speak girls' voices, there were no attempts to feminize them.

Molly was a little better in that the female voices were slightly discernable, but when moving to male voices, there was no effort to try to make the voice masculine.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out which character was talking. Except for Jace - then I was just annoyed.

Also, they pronounced stele different in this book than in the other three.

Great story, horrible narrator

The story is great but the female narrator, is absolutely awful. Her pronunciation is terrible and not just on names and places but on everyday words (hay-mer, instead of hammer, really?) I like the guy's voice but the british accent just kind of throws me off.

Awesome story, terrible narration...

Would you listen to City of Fallen Angels again? Why?

I'd be more likely to read the book than listen to it again, the narration is just BAD.

What did you like best about this story?

I love seeing the characters again, and finding out more of their history.

How could the performance have been better?

Natalie Moore should've had this. Dual narration is a great idea, but only with good narrators. Next time, don't get narrators just because they are popular at the moment, or God forbid, just because they LOOK like the characters they read for! Simon is not British, for God's sake! And neither is any other male in the book. I could understand if this were part of The Infernal Devices, but it isn't, and please, Audible, don't get any ideas about sticking him on that series.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Scenes between Clary and Jocelyn were good, nice mother/daughter interaction. Izzy and Simon were cute at the end, as well.

Any additional comments?

Seriously, get Natalie Moore back in the studio to re-record this, and offer it as a Free for Members or something for those of us who bought this horrible version.

could have been better

Jace spent a lot of this book throwing a 2 year old fit and the rest of the cast just kinda fed into it. I'm a fan of the series but not of books that have stuff happen to the characters simply because they act stupid